Jason Bourne: The ultimate thrille

Cast: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles

Rated: 8.7/10

Edgy, accelerative at all times, merging past and present with finesse — this fourth one from the Bourne family is packed with action, a true entertainer and a film full of tension-propelled lure.

CIA operative and engineered killing machine of a rogue and secret programme, Jason Bourne is back in full splendour here. Only, this time, he is more enigmatic but much less clueless about his modified origins and the reason for his existence.

Punching his fists at secret street fight arenas on restive international borders, he makes a covert living with “surviving another day” as his only and perennial target till a former woman operative digs through some classified information which suggests his father was killed in Beirut before he gave his only son up to be messed up by the CIA’s lab monsters.

As Bourne hops continents and cities with CIA chief Dewey (a much wrinkled and unscrupulous Tommy Lee Jones) on his trail with his restive woman protege, veteran director Paul Greengrass creates a web so engrossing and intriguing that you get drawn into it inexorably and open-mouthed.

The cinematography is slick, the locations near perfect and the car chases and other action sequences to die for. The director does not give you a minute to catch your breath as you try to keep up with Bourne on the run.

Matt Damon as Bourne gives new life to the identity which he has now worn for four franchises and he continues to revet with his brand of scintillating Bournomics.

A perfect, flabless, to-the-point and yet the most expansive thriller this year, produced by Damon himself. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 7 August, 2016